From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 23:29:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA28573 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA28566 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01I3FLIFDXB40009TT@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:29:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: PPP and SLIP Servers To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I3FLIFEGLE0009TT@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-VMS-Cc: ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am able to establish a slip or a ppp connection to Stanford's slip service from home, using FreeBSD 2.1R. But Stanford's lines are often busy, and I was thinking I might like to use my 2.0.5 setup at the office, connected to Stanford's Ethernet setup, as slip or ppp server. The documentation suggests that to run it as a ppp server, I need an ip address for it different from the ip address I have that's assigned to the Ethernet interface; and I also need an ip address for the machine at home. The slip server discussion doesn't mention this, but it does note that "options GATEWAY" needs to be in the kernel. It may be that it's just too complicated to make the office machine work as a server, but I would be interested in comments on which would be likely to work better and whether I really do need additional ip addresses. Annelise